Tag Archives: leadership

Military: Why Inspections aren’t a good thing If your workspace is clean and functional enough for your entire command, day in and day out, why is it not good enough for a NEW command or for a guest inspection??? Answer below… Imagine this: You joined the military because you thought this country needed your help.

Bureaucracy Indicator – Just Listen to the Hallway Talk… You know the truth, you just have to allow yourself to see it… and hear it. I have an experiment that will help set your mind a little more free. Your employer does not care about you. In every bureaucracy there are two types of people.

Your government doesn’t care about you “Member’s Responsibility”. Today we are judging the priorities of government bureaucracies based on their own actions and we’re going to see if they add up to them giving a shit about you… This is going to be a heated rant today. Let’s start off with the fucking bane of

Mental and Physical Space -An essay on Leadership Our brains and our belts and the trunks of our cars are ONLY so big… you fucking bureaucrats… Let’s talk about the battle between real life operations and pretend land that so many people struggle with. Context These issues will likely apply everywhere with field operations and

Brotherhood of Warriors – by Aaron Cohen In my ten+ years of military and law enforcement one of the biggest tools I have earned and put into my toolbox is “perspective”. I kept the review short-ish today because the book has a very clear focus and a lot of the story hammers home the same

11 Reasons Why I Promote the Open Source Skill Sets That I Teach Some points to defend phrases like “How dare you, bad guys can use these techniques!”. So let’s just start a dialogue and do some critical thinking and view some different perspectives. It’s gonna be fun 😉 I’ve divided this into 11

Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko – Reviewed This book plays both sides of the field (like some of my last girlfriends) and does not pull punches (also, same). You NEED to know where the police profession has been to know which direction we are going. This book can help if you keep

How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy. Thanks for checking out our book review of Micah Zenko’s book Red Team. OMG, You had me at the title ::heart:: Come check out our off the cuff review on YouTube: What Sticks Out to Me Up front. I like to take pictures or screen shots of good

A review of the book “On Combat” On by Lt Col Dave Grossman. I have been looking for new Podcasts to follow and a few weeks ago stumbled across the “Modern Combat & Survival” podcast. I listened to their episode #112: Sheepdog Tactics with Dave Grossman, and realized that now would be a good time

So how are the most important people the least important? This one is tongue in cheek. It goes both way (much like some of my former girlfriends). FIRST OFF: The people that by rank and command think they are the most important who in fucking RL (Real Life) only get in the way of the mission